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Scott Jacobs talked about regulatory reform at the World Governments Summit in Dubai this week. Razan Salman, CNN’s Senior Economy & Government Reporter, hosted the discussion with Scott Jacobs and the OECD deputy head of the regulatory program, Daniel Trnka. She wrote, “An insightful conversation on Regulatory Impact Assessments, part of the Global Government Regulatory Forum

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Licensing reform! JC&A has decided to post one of our regulatory reform tools for general use. This is the Decision Tree for Licensing Reforms that we’ve developed to guide reviews of several thousand licenses over the years. The first page helps you determine whether a license is needed and the second page helps you determine

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JC&A is pleased that the Commonwealth has recently published the Handbook on Designing and Implementing RIA Systems written by Scott Jacobs. The Handbook on Designing and Implementing RIA Systems (the ‘Handbook’) is intended to assist Commonwealth governments in designing and implementing programmes of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) across multiple regulatory institutions. It identifies major risk

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Supported by FCDO-funded The Adam Smith International–REMIT program and Jacobs Cordova & Associates, the Regulatory GuillotineTM in government procedures will improve investment climate by reducing thousands of regulations and formalities leading to much needed robustness to the economy. A new national registry will be set up which will become the first legal repository of all

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 Islamabad: August 05, 2024:Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a meeting with the Managing Director of Jacobs, Cordova and Associates Mr. Scott Jacobs at Finance Division today. Secretary Board of Investment and officials from relevant ministries/divisions were also present in the meeting. The meeting focused on the subject of regulatory reforms

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Scott Jacobs presented a new paper, “What Comes Next? Innovation and Regulatory Forbearance,” at the conference, “Regulatory Governance in a Changing World,” June 17-18, 2024, at the University of Pennsylvania. In this short video, Jacobs presents his paper, arguing that we need risk managers rather than regulators to deal with transformational innovations. He argues that

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JC&A is pleased to assist the Government of Uganda with measurement and evaluation of the results of a 2017 Standard Cost Model (SCM) review of licensing regimes, assessment of gains/losses of compliance costs for businesses (more than 30 focus groups), review of pending reforms and newer reforms introduced, reform of the licensing e-Portal and re-engineering

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Scott Jacobs was invited to teach an applied RIA course to the staff of the Thailand National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in Bangkok. Pictured is Scott Jacobs with NBTC Commissioner Suphat Suphachalasai, and NBTC staff, September 2023

Scott Jacobs is discussing the use of regulatory impact analysis in emerging Fintech issues such as digital assets, ESG ratings, and licensing of virtual banks with the Bank of Thailand. Innovation and risk management are central to the financial industry today, and the Bank of Thailand is in the mainstream of regulators in balancing the

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